Texas governor slammed after being caught on hot mic admitting his reopen order

[turbinetree]

will worsen the pandemic

Published 1 min ago on May 5, 2020

By Matthew Chapman

On Tuesday, leaked audio of a call with state lawmakers revealed that Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) admitted his decision to lift lockdowns in Texas will cause more people to be infected with COVID-19.

Link to tweet

Commenters on social media exploded with fury at Abbott’s seeming lack of concern for the health of his constituents.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/texas-governor-slammed-after-being-caught-on-hot-mic-admitting-his-reopen-order-will-worsen-the-pandemic/

Hey Texas your expendable ............got it.............are you going to go and vote in your state and vote him and everyone else that is tried to this shit out, your state will put people to death for premeditated murder, what do you think this is................

[bluestarone]

1. They say follow the money, and i say follow the assholes (rethugs that decide to open it up)

See any Rethuglicon governors, senators, congress people , go into restaurants, bars, malls? I BET NOT!!

[Lucinda]

2. ...

[samsingh]

3. Why is this story not everywhere? Maybe Chris Hayes might want to spend some time on this

instead of lies against Biden?

[BamaRefugee]

4. Nah, Hayes can't tie Biden into this.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Gettin' awful close to the truth: Our corporate overlords demand human sacrifices, now!

[Cha]

6. THEN WHY REOPEN?

[dewsgirl]

8. Because they don't give a shit. Money is far more important to them.

[uponit7771]

9. It will look pretty funny if Putin wins re-election for Trump with 20% unemployment & 100,000 dead

... so might as well blame the dead people on the governors and the 20% unemployment on Hillary's emails

[pecosbob]

7. Predators wanna prey

They'll have to develop entirely new feeding techniques if we won't come out of our homes.